Statistics- Standard Deviation

Question:

A Pension Fund manager is considering three mutual funds. The first is a stock fund; the second is a long- term government and corporate bond fund, and the third is a T-bill money market fund that yields a sure rate of 5.5%. The probability distributions of the risky funds are….

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International Trade & Political Economy Perspectives Case Question Assignment – Mongolian Foreign Investment

Question

Should Moore purchase the demand planning module and why or why not?  Remember to apply and refer to case specifics and concepts learned in pre-reading. (10 points)

Answer: An ERP system is basically internally focused to improve corporate efficiency, reduce costs and inventory, integrate different systems and divisions, information management and standardize practices.  Demand forecasting is related to customers and not an internal matter.

Exhibit 4 shows that the inventory accuracy was more than 99% for all the distribution centers. This implies that Moore’s existing demand forecasting techniques are quite robust.

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Vermeer Technologies Case Study

1. Background of Principals: (Charles Ferguson, Randy Forgaard)
2. Experience.
   • Charles Ferguson

i        Ph.D. (political Science), MIT

ii      BA (mathematics), University of California.

iii    Director, Alliance Technology Fund.

iv     Independent consultant and strategist for leading high-tech companies, including Motorola, Apple, and Intel (1982).

v       Authored a prize-winning article in the HBR’88 on the US semiconductor industry and co-authored Computer Wars: The Fall of IBM and the Future of Global Technology (one of the Top 10 business books of the year by Business Week’93).

vi     Had been a postdoctoral research associate at the MIT Center for Technology, Policy, and Industrial Development and a software technology analyst at IBM…

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A review on Cloud computing

The cloud computing is growing on the rise among the IT professionals as far as their carriers are concerned. Hugos the blogger and writer for cio.com believes that cloud computing is going to bring a change in the IT sector.

Hugos illustrated the deployment of cloud computing in different sectors like insurance, banks etc using examples such as processing of payments.

Hugos session has explored where and how to use cloud computing which he begins with the budget of cloud. Hugos says the intellectual rigidity around budgeting....

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METSO Management

Question

How did TASMAN become strategically important?  (5 points)

Answer:  TASMAN became strategically important for Metso because of its three primary capabilities:

Redesigning business processes:  Metso had a constantly changing organizational structure comprising of several divisions, units and sites linked in a networked form. Earlier, one delivery process was sometimes managed by multiple project managers (PMs). So a lateral coordinator was required to juggle the activities of the different…

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Book Review-Final Accounting: Ambition, Greed, and the Fall of Arthur Andersen by Barbara Ley Toffler

Great organizations are built on strong, deep rooted foundations. Foundations built with bricks of trust, honesty, hard work, strong desire to succeed, loyalty and professionalism. When these adjectives are strongly adhered to over the years and unto generations and when the people in that organization develop the feeling of belongingness to the place, it then that great organizations emerge. From the top management and leadership to the people…

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Management-CGE&Y

1. a) What would you say is the value proposition for the combined CGE&Y entity?

Answer: CGE&Y’s value proposition rested on helping its clients find their way through the whole value chain – from strategy design to implementation. Its range of service lines was organized in the following three core business areas:

• Strategy Consulting
• Business Solutions and Systems Transformation
• Information Systems Management – via outsourcing contracts.

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